Okay, enough with the drama already. Let’s get to my point now shall we?
Part I and Part II were partly for you my dear readers and partly for my indulgence in navel-gazing. My own navel that is, don’t worry. This post – Part III – is the end of the trilogy. But it’s also a beginning. A new beginning. [Is that an oxymoron? Aren’t all beginnings new? Oh well, I’m saying it anyway.]
The beginning is to introduce to you my new blog. The one you are reading now. Did ya catch the name or just hop right over when you saw the post on my old blog announcing to the world I had started this blog? Yeah, I’m pretty excited about it too so I’ll forgive you on that one.
Assuming you have by now taken a peek at the title, I’ll give you some background on why I chose the name.
A favourite podcast of mine is The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe. As he describes the show, it “is a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Take a gander at his website, he’ll describe his show much better than I could. What The Way I Heard It has to do with this blog is how he ends all of his episodes. His signature closing line is: “Anyway, that’s the way I heard it.”
While listening to one of the broadcasts, when I heard that ending, it occurred to me a lot of the writing I did in the old blog was kinda like that. I heard, read, saw, or thought something and wrote about it. Simple as that. The topics I covered were all over the place, anything that fit that particular day’s journey. I just wrote about life, my own and in general, and my thoughts about it. Oddly enough, that is precisely one of the things I didn’t like about my old site. It didn’t have a ‘theme’.
I went back in to my Reader and mentally applauded the writers who had kept up with their blogs all this time I hadn’t. I realized how much I missed the community of our blogging world. It became apparent to me that it wasn’t so much about the posts, categories, tags, or the the likes and comments. It was about writing which I have had a passion for since I was a child. And it was about community. And I have come to the belief that it takes a community to craft a writer.
I request your patience as I get this going. I’m requesting it of myself as well. I have had to learn and relearn A LOT of the tech side of things. Good thing is I’m trying to approach it with a beginner’s mind. And that’s what it really is for each of us, every day of our lives. Despite – or in spite of – our past, we are all starting out the same way today. Beginners for what the day may hold. It has never been lived before. By any of us. Let’s find out together what words will fill it and create new past experiences. And what our musings are about those words. So tell me, how’s your day going so far? Mine is amazing. I woke up. And for that I am truly grateful.
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Their Words. My Musings. 